Shish2k

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by Shish2k 12y ago
> with a sub-qualification Odd, that didn't show up in my view o_O Maybe google is geo-targetting dictionary definitions... Also, 'under the terms of this document' does not literally mean 'physically located beneath
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by Shish2k 12y ago
As far as I've heard (no numbers) the games platform is still fairly popular - which was a surprise to me because I've not seen any games in my feed for years. Apparently this is because facebook realised how annoying it was for n
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by Shish2k 12y ago
google "define:hereunder" -> "as provided for under the terms of this document."
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by Shish2k 12y ago
In my experience, competent but unpassionate programmers will do a good job of implementing a flawed spec and be happy about it, because it's management's problem and they get paid the same either way; competent and passionate pro
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by Shish2k 12y ago
If we have fake sun and air which is indistinguishable from the real thing, why would you want the real thing? I'm actually quite excited by the same reason -- if we can ween ourselves off of the sun with no side-effects, then that&#x2
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Most of those headlines end in question marks, and therefor are implicitly saying "it isn't" :P
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by Shish2k 12y ago
2015: Year of linux on everything except the desktop?
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Tunnel SSH over HTTP, best (worst) of both worlds :) (I have tried this; it is both useful and terrible)
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by Shish2k 12y ago
mosh isn't a data stream tool like ssh though, it's actually more like VNC -- the reason it performs better is that it sends snapshots of the terminal over UDP, allowing random packets to be dropped
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> Between 2-4% of requests can’t be served via our caches, and there are users who always need to be served by our main (uncached) application servers. This includes anyone who logs into an account, as they see a customized version I run
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Wouldn't that imply putting a network-accessible server in the kernel? That seems a fair bit more risky than non-root userspace...
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by Shish2k 12y ago
This. I was offered a job at a top-10 US tech company, which would have been a massive pay and career boost, and turned it down largely because the US seems so screwed up (politics and healthcare being prime examples). (They then offered
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Looking at the tangentially linked qrintf project that H2O uses ( https://github.com/h2o/qrintf ), replacing generic sprintf calls with specialised versions for a 10x speed boost - that seems like a brilliant idea, I w
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by Shish2k 12y ago
And version 1, if anyone wants to compare the nearly 1:1 python version - https://github.com/shish/context
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Context2, flame chart creator, goes open source(github.com)
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> it's created a world where we can't "contribute to open source" without permission from a gatekeeper maintainer. Hasn't it always been the case that you need permission from the maintainer to get your code in
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> Even today, I still have some cases where docker will complain about not being able to create the container/file, due to some inane error. I've had to reboot machines many times just to try to get it to cooperate. I get those
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> You can control nearly everything from the keyboard Personally I'm still waiting for a tiling WM with mouse support - having used a few keyboard based WMs, and having used Eclipse, I find Eclipse to be by far the nicest. The only
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by Shish2k 12y ago
This post is now 12 hours old, and I can't see a single response along those lines, let alone a comment section packed with such things. You may want to rethink your prejudice...
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by Shish2k 12y ago
To be fair, the entire open source ecosystem combined minus emacs doesn't scratch the extensibility of emacs...
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> oh shit, a lot of people are truly fucked right now if it gets any worse than this Seems weird that in America people are so opposed to a socialism (which helps the individuals when a badly managed company screws up and dies, ensuring
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I came up with the same workaround myself; then switched to influxdb, and my monitoring server's io-wait is still at 0% even with twice as many metrics coming in :)
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by Shish2k 12y ago
FWIW I've found influxdb considerably easier to install and manage than graphite (graphite doesn't play well with virtualenv, which makes dependency management horrible, compared to influxdb's single static binary) Also, I ca
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> nice default variables If you think that's nice, I'm about to show you something which will BLOW YOUR MIND :D >>> def hello(name="anybody", age=10): ... print "hello %(name)s, aged %(age)
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by Shish2k 12y ago
You wait that long? I go into them knowing from the start that the whole thread will be divided into "PHP is terrible", "PHP is terrible but it gets the job done", and "PHP is my second language (after javascript) a
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> I think PHP gets a bad rep because there is a lot of bad code out there and people blame the language for the bad code Where do you get the idea that people judge a language based on other people's code in it, and not on their own
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by Shish2k 12y ago
A car metaphor for this conversation: "I love my skoda! It has four wheels, and a roof, and a passenger seat!" "That's a pretty low bar for things to love about a car. Pretty much all other cars also have those features,
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by Shish2k 12y ago
My mind is honestly blown by people here thinking that half-assed type checking, local variables, and classes are novel and unique features of PHP which make it better than most other languages. Am I really living in a world where people tr
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> One of my favorite features is type enforcement ... that's a feature that pretty much every other language either already has (and does better), or explicitly does something different (but better) :S Specifically, every other lang
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I am confused by "This game has tiers, with high-tier characters consistently beating low-tier characters" leading to a conclusion of "this game is well balanced", can anyone explain? (Also, anyone have any links for get

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